Ambazonia’s Response to Biya’s Re-election: A Fragile Future

As expected, the hand-picked and dozy Constitutional Council announced Mr Biya as the winner of the 12^th October 2025 presidential poll in La République du Cameroun. The decision from a feeble would-be grandiose presentation had already been trailed and rejected by the already-wised-up electorate. For the week before the announcement, while Biyta’s proxies tried to “bring back” Tchiroma in “secret” negotiations in France, there was a fevered atmosphere of “not this time” as more and more PV’s showed a clear victory for Tchiroma, Mr Biya’s camp dismissing the evidence as “raw data”.

“Raw data” would be laughable in other contexts. In La République du Cameroun sounded as ominous as “guarantor of peace, youth interest, women’s interests”, the ideas which were postulated in Mr Biya’s “ambitions” for an 8^th term! Those Ambitions, with hindsight could be seen as threats, suggesting Mr was threatening to unleash his yet-more-misnamed “forces of law and order” on the “beneficiaries” of those electoral “ambitions”. The “ambitions” would not tally with a long “serving” president who is running a civil war against women, children and youths; has maintained a system of “only-the-old”, whose only objective is to survive. During the “campaign” , in which he did not campaign or even present his own candidature, he had to go to Europe for medical care, having failed to achieve in four decades, the simple ambition of creating one health facility to which he would entrust he care. In his last term and prior, women have lost babies in hospitals, many patients have been detained for bills … Even his proxies would not swallow his “ambitions”. In context, “raw data” – not yet cooked, not yet “processed”, not yet falsified.

“The people” have rejected Mr Biya’s “re-election” with [sporadic] marches of protest which have left Mr Biya and his proxies seeking ways to “exercise authority”, to the extent that they have gone to ridiculously petty lengths. One of the “targets” is reported to be Mr Biya’s self-proclaimed best supporter being stopped from entering Garoua and turned around to return to Yaounde. Yes, because “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun”, Pr Messaga Nyamding was prevented, on arrival, from leaving Garoua Airport and sent back on the same aircraft.

This suggests Mr Biya’s cronies were hopping to be breaking more limbs by now. Instead, they are left waiting. Ambazonia News does understand there have been several deaths. The atmosphere, though is still expectant.

Mr Biya’s regime is in place still – just. It is very much devoid of any power. It is not in power. Even the traditional “letter of congratulations” has not arrived from mentor France!

Imagine being in office but not in power, looking for ways to “show” or exercise power.

By contrast, there are more voices openly challenging the regime but cleverly not presenting the regime with the fodder they would dearly love to go at! The Camerounese have their voices back and have finally caught up with the idea that they must run their own lives and livelihoods. Ambazonia News will keep tabs on the various ways they device to nudge Mr Biya’s regime aside.

This story is not yet told! The regime is going to die of idleness and self doubt at this rate.

What should Ambazonians do?

Nothing new. There was never going to be a speedy solution whatever the result in La République du Cameroun’s poll. The fragility of Biya’s regime does present an opening.

Ambazonia does not to clean up the slur that Mr Biya “received 86%” of votes in Northern Ambazonia. Though this clearly fictional, the authors still need to account for the damage to the memory of all the ARF, women and children who have fallen to La République du Cameroun’s genocide.

From Ambazonia’s perspective Mr Biya’s “victory” has the one positive of keeping our number of choices at one. We still need to get our country back and one more year of experience only helps.

We need to stride out now more focused on what we need to do and do it with, for want of a better phrase, sang froid, deliberately aiming our efforts for the most impact and effectiveness in uprooting the illegal and forceful occupier.

Charades Continue as Invisible Man, Biya, continues “bid” for 8th Term

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Charades Continue as Invisible Man continues bid for 8th Term – they are no longer pretending that he is “doing anything for himself”. His “supporters” are meeting him by proxy! He has had the seventh term by proxy and his proxies now think his invisibility is … invisible!

In La République du Cameroun they have a few gems they roll out to describe and lament their plight. Every time they[resigned lamentations] are deployed, they [the victim-citizens of La République du Cameroun] must think “We have heard this before! Think of something new!”.

Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun is the most apt encapsulation of the helplessness that encompasses the victims of LRC.

How is it that “the favourite to “win” the election” has not even been seen declaring his candidature? Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun.

Why are the bishops trooping to Etoudi to support a political venture against their “flocks”? Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun.

How did the bishops cope with the idea that they did not meet the person they went to meet and been seen supporting? le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun.

OK so men of God should be peace-loving but surely they are not just supposed to preach “turn the other chick” without any pretence of seeking justice! How can they preach that while rushing to be seen supporting the party slapping they chicks?

What about the rag-tag group of “North West Chiefs”? When did North West Chiefs become messengers to travel to another person palace and stand to deliver a message? How did they cope with the idea that they did not even get to see the person they went to support and be seen to support? Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun.

As they persons insist on be referred to as North West Chiefs, they are not fooling anyone, least of all themselves. They know that North West Chiefs are servants of their people who guard their people’s dignity.

Since these persons were mute at home burnings, killings of their youth, killings of toddlers on their way to school and all the other indignities and harms, to which their people have been subject for such a long time, they know that are not North West Chiefs. Even if le Cameroun C’est le Cameroun, North West Chiefs have not become messengers and supplicants who turn up to worship an absent invisible bloke! Not in our name. As they have voluntarily made laughing stocks of themselves Le Cameroun c’est li Cameroun is not enough to save face even to themselves.

Now to the invisible man – how will the invisible man run for a new term without appearing? Well, as le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun, it is possible that the same coterie which has declared his candidature without him, will run his campaign without him [or the electorate] and declare his victory without him needing to appear. After all, le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun. When this victory to the invisible man is declared, will the French turn up to congratulate the invisible man in his absence? After all, la France c’est la France, right?

One thing is for sure, when this macabre charade ends in three months, Ambazonia will be blessed to have been separated from La République du Cameroun.

What Ambazonian Citizens should do.

Collaborate: On the ground, Ambazonian citizens should work with each other to take their destiny in hand. They should have the courage and dignity to ignore the occupation. The thugs blocking your paths are not better than you. If you work with the ARF+, their stay on your path will be short-lived as their impunity will be removed. le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun will not save them because Ambazonia is not in La République du Cameroun. If they are expecting to keep playing games of “deference” where, apparently Mr Biya The invisible is so above all the electorate that he does not need to appear to declare his own candidature, to address the electorate for his own term, or even do anything during his expiring term, apart from letting it be said that “things are done in his name”, they have lost it. There is nobody at home. There dam will burst soon – inevitably and we need to have the courage of our convictions and take charge of our country

The ARF+ need to collaborate with, and protect, all civilians to ensure that have a demonstrably better standard of life and livelihood compared to what they get from forceful occupier, La République du Cameroun. That should not be too onerous considering the absurdities that the occupier passes under the filter of le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun. It will also provide a safer environment for ARF+ when they and our citizens feel the dignity of our collective belonging and civilisation. It takes only a very small step and thankfully, Ambazonia is now at a juncture where everyone has learnt. We need to apply that learning in choosing who we go with for our long term future. With our civilians empowered to take charge of their socio-political development, life will be safer for all of us as they cannot intimidate an empowered free people who know the righteousness of their cause.

Our long term future does not sustain on any temporary fear of the brutality of La République occupation. Our dignity and sense of fair play does not, either as we cannot sustain the opposite of what we know to be right. That is what brought us out in 2017. Nothing since then has proved us wrong. Everything has proved our choice right and the only sustainable cause especially now we are emerging from the backlash of La République du Cameroun militias.

We must hold our nerve and ignore the strange charades going on. The bishops don’t represent us. Nor do the chiefs who would rush to Yaoundé to deliver a message and supplicate to an empty room. We may still respect our institutions but the individuals acting in these charades do not represent us. We know who we are and we now know who we can accept and trust.

We must be thankful that they, the stooges/clowns of this sad saga, helped to demonstrate that La République du Cameroun is on their last legs, compounding absurdity on absurdity in an “Emperor’s New Clothes” tragi-comedy designed to make-believe this final time…

Can they continue with the Invisible Candidate? You decide if you are a La République du Cameroun Citizen. If you are Ambazonian, thankfully you can only watch this tragedy and count the days until they leave, as they must, having legally seceded from the union that never was in 1984 [HCB/28/92] – and good riddance!

The most High God is always the Watchman of Our Nation – Ambazonia, risen never to fall!

Kamto’s Luck: What he should do to serve even more.

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It is no longer news that Maurice Kamto has been “pre-defeated” by the Rassemblement Democratic du Peuple Camerounais, RDPC machine. While he has been disqualified from running, he can genuinely feel relieved at not having to be one of the validators once more, given that the “consensual reform” has not come to pass in the last seven years. Ambazonia News explores a range of the options, the silver linings that this dark cloud comes with for both Kamto and the MRC.

A step back to the lucky circumstances that allowed the RDPC to win this round sees its roots, and the RDPC’s mixed blessing in “Movement pour la Renaissance du Cameroun”, MRC deciding to boycott previous “electoral farces”, thereby handing the RDPC this “solution” this time around.

So was MRC right then or now?

The MRC was right to campaign for a fairer electoral system and, even more to applaud, for putting their money where their mouth was in refusing to play validators. It was a very good sign to show a demarcation between MRC and the other comic characters who call themselves the opposition and deliberately validate a biased “electoral system” at every opportunity for a few CFA.

Where the MRC failed was in effectively galvanising the electorate and the gourvenants’ mutuality to bring about the “consensual reform” of the electoral system they [MRC] had rightly invested so much to achieve. Even the pre-defeat of Maurice Kamto should also be to MRC’s credit for risking it to achieve reform. Kamto is now in a good position to publish a white paper on the reforms of the electoral system from a relatively neutral position as he cannot be seen as calling for a system to help him win.

He is also in a similarly advantageous position to coordinate a collaboration among the genuine opposition for the same reason that he can be seen as impartial and actually be impartial, not having to contend with the awkwardness of throwing his hat in the ring as the potential single torch bearer.

His [Kamto’s] disqualification could well not be the coup that the RDPC think if MRC follow up with the courage of their conviction in marshalling the opposition from an inevitably self-less – and therefore “patriotic” position. They could call themselves selfless fighters for the republic in this term.

The electorate of LRC needs to get used to the idea that someone can have the long fight rather than the usual ruses where hundreds turn up with fanfare only to fold to the RDPC in exchange for “their share” even while lamely blaming the obviously biased and flawed system. The electorate need to see the courage in having actually kept sincere rather than place-hold and validate just to have the chance to field their candidate.

For the MRC, this cloud has a silver lining.

If the MRC takes this opportunity they can go further by also seriously thinking about the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle. Without the burden of having to convince the electorate in La République du Cameroun, they can put some real effort into understanding the whole root causes, legal positions and the inevitable need to resort to negotiations to settle the conflict. There is no urgency and therefore it is no longer a politic to promise “to visit” with the implied same-flawed implication of granting an internal solution to a wholly legally separate state. They must be prepared to think the previously unthinkable, including what may have been, unmentionable grey-sky thinking had they been contending for the La République du Cameroun, presidency.

So MRC, if you pursue your brave stances, go and talk to Ambazonians and find out how to resolve the Liberation Struggle in a mutual way. It will help you when you come back to be able to make a substantial contribution to bring a just peace and stability to this Gulf of Guinea.

First hint for a starting point: while La République du Cameroun is called La République du Cameroun, MRC needs to come to terms and bring the understanding to les gourvenants of LRC that that means Ambazonia is outside their legal borders. MRC is also in a relatively better position intellectually to grasp the idea that the name change in 1984 was a one-way irreversible move for les gourvenants, which after its signing and announcement, immediately removed any further ability LRC governments to meddle in Ambazonia’s socio-political development and evolution, thereafter.

MRC needs to use this unexpected opportunity wisely to bring and clarify the mutuality that could see both states co-exist in a more constructive neighbourly mode.

Ambazonia’s Sovereignty Amid Cameroun’s Electoral Chaos

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As we write, La République du Cameroun is in the throes of “election” fever, complete with the tragi-comic events that no fiction writer could deem plausible enough to publish! Be that as it may, they are acting it out. They are “pre-defeating” candidates while setting up processes to ensure that their “international partners” will be able to “pass the elections” as “not too flawed”. Remember that last time the “election observers” who “passed” the 2018 “elections” had as their main qualifications being white! It later emerged they had no expertise or experience, even if one goes past the utter embarrassment of continue to need rely on parading even really reputed observers.

Ambazonian independentists have issued reminders that “election” activities on their territory. It is only right to issue such reminders but is it necessary to ban? Yes and no.

It is right to “ban” to ensure our citizens are not induced to take part, be it by local fifth columnists or La République du Cameroun other agents. The ban falls fairly and squarely within the current Liberation Struggle and should be enforced by applying the appropriate and proportionate sanctions to all those who would seek to undermine our sovereignty even when it those acts are already illegal under international laws and statutes to which La République du Cameroun is signatory. For a reminder, the Ambazonia lies out side the borders of La République du Cameroun, which were frozen at their independence on 1^st January 1960. In view of this fact, La République du Cameroun’s elections, even if they were less controversial, would not be legally welcome on Ambazonian territory. In view of the potential chaos that that exercise looks likely to unleash this time around, it ill-advised for anyone to expose our territory and civilians to such potential harm.

On the other hand, banning pre-supposes there is a plausible or legitimate event to ban – there is not and there need not be an explicit ban. We work towards the day when Ambazonians will know enough to simply ignore and “vote with their feet” so to speak! Until then Ambazonian leaders must keep banning just as La République du Cameroun’s carpet-baggers unfurl their wares to make impossible promises which they cannot fulfil and do not need to fulfil as Ambazonia does not need them.

“Candidate” Kamto is on record as promising to “visit” Ambazonia, though he referred to Ambazonia as “North West and South West regions”. The positive is that he clearly sees Ambazonia as being outside La République du Cameroun though he does not acknowledge it, preferring to let his electors continue to mistake La République du Cameroun as including Ambazonia.

“Candidate” Osih has stated that he would talk to [the leaders of] Ambazonia and that he would release those in prison first. He too did not explicitly acknowledge Ambazonia as a state but did put negotiations in prospect. Even though “his” party has failed to raise a debate on Ambazonia even once in nearly nine years of killings and displacement, while collecting payments from La République du Cameroun parliament, they are still labouring under the misconception that they represent Ambazonia in that foreign parliament. In that regard he and his party’s position is more callous for they have been a literal “front” allowing La République du Cameroun to imply that Ambazonia was represented in their parliament by non-RDPC persons. It is worth noting that they also, similarly, “validated” the so-called great national dialogue where they failed to put their big “electoral” offering, “federation”, on the agenda. While his “offers” may seem plausible for a starting point, no Ambazonia can count on them as he is extremely unlikely to turn out as anything other than a validator, providing the usual “front” when the RDPC “wins”, for them to claim they won in a “contest”. Apart from the virtually impossible chance of winning, it is worth reminding Ambazonians that they are not legal La République du Cameroun citizens, living in a territory outside La République du Cameroun borders, and should not join the SDF in providing the “front” to validate RDPC and other carpet-baggers’ illegal stance on Ambazonia.

Issa Tchiroma proposed the most feasible route even if it still suffers from the mistaken view of Ambazonia as part of La République du Cameroun. He proposed a referendum to let the people express their preferences. Mistaking Ambazonia as a part of La République du Cameroun would negate the efficiency of a referendum to resolve the Liberation Struggle/”anglophone crisis” in much the same way that the so-called referendum of 1972 entrenched La République du Cameroun in a state of illegality, setting a precedent for paradoxical violations of “the” constitution. To make his proposal feasible, it would need to be coupled with the acceptance that Ambazonia is outside La République du Cameroun and then the referendum with be exclusively for Ambazonians to avoid the same “rigging” that the 1972 already-illegal referendum suffered.

Akere Muna is the ultimate front, though he is even less likely to “win”. As a lawyer, he should know the legal position on Ambazonina and therefore, should not be playing validator again. Just like SDF, he has been in comfortable opposition of the RDPC while mute on the plight of Ambazonians. He has been displaying his “bilingualism”, Ambazonia News imagines, in a bid to placate that well-known king-maker country by not being too anglophone. The very last thing Ambazonia needs is to see a stooge validating a non-solution to her demand for justice and sovereignty. Ambazonia News is relaxed about that prospect as it would be an absurdity too far for Muna to “come from nowhere” to win whether he was installed by said kingmaker of defying virtual impossibility to defeat RDPC on their own pitch with their referee, linesmen, match delegate and the very La République du Cameroun backup of homologation committees. If he beats all that, he cannot beat the secession of 1984 when Mr Biya withdrew La République du Cameroun from the mere-de facto “union” of the then “united” Republic, previously “federal” Republic of Cameroon.

Ambazonians and Ambazonia should instead concentrate on planning how to cope in the aftermath of the La République du Cameroun electoral charade before continuing to work towards a settlement which does not defy the legal reality. Defying the legal reality is any purported settlement which ignores the secession and presents Ambazonia as a helpless supplicant being granted a settlement by La République du Cameroun.

La République du Cameroun no longer has anything to offer Ambazonia as they are “forcibly occupying Ambazonia” as per HCB/28/92, the Bamenda High Court ruling in “Republic of Ambazonia vs Republic of Cameroon”.

Mr Biya is a Candidate! Pyromaniac promises his expertise in fires as an asset!

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Mr Biya has finally “confirmed” that he will run for an eighth term in La République du Cameroun come October twelfth 2025. He did not a actually come out to announce his candidature. It was issued on social media – a method which is guaranteed to have zero input from him – an consistent with his last term. He was invisible when he “won” the last term, not appearing in any rallies. Then, he spent the seven years playing hide and seek with “his” people. During that term his cronies were awarded many “evacuations” for expensive medical care abroad while many died in ill-equipped health units at home. It was even not to odd to hear of corpses being detained in morgues until hospital fees could be paid for their release. Patients likewise.

During the whole of his expiring term he has been oblivious to the fact that he authorized his militias to terrorize the “citizens” in the “Anglophone Regions” where a wide range of people have been killed nominally under his command. The victims include two toddlers killed in Buea and Bamenda on their way to kindergarten. The killers have never been shown to have faced any sanctions, nor has there been any alarm that he runs a system where his militias and not only armed while “controlling” school-run traffic, but authorized to fire live rounds into that traffic! In the wider “crisis” his victims include women, some pregnant, thereby combining the targets of his promise to focus blah blah blah. In his declaration of candidacy, he promises to put the youth and women at the center of all action in his eighth term! So many holes dug –

The mothers of those two toddlers and many young people in Bamenda and Buea would beg to differ and say “No, thank you!” to such ironic promises from someone directly responsible for their distress. A case of a pyromaniac promising to fight a fire they set.
Th youth, who cannot get any employment even if they could buy it, would be daft to buys the promise of action on their plight. Mr Biya could solve that problem by leaving and taking his kleptomaniac incompetent and tribalistic regime. The youth would get by in a fair system without any “action” from someone who will have his work cut to get out of his bed on his own steam, never mind the crop of incompetent kleptomaniacs he has the distinction of having grown. All the eighty-somethings hardly coping with their own physical needs, departing would leave the youth to make their own progress on their own efforts and merits without any kind action.
What about claiming to be the “hope for peace”? Really!? The man who sent out militias to break limbs and maim? That sound more like a threat than a promise! If the people of La République du Cameroun have any hope they should read Mr Biya’s promises as confessions of failure and warnings to their future generations.
He cares for his “dear beautiful country”, not! After forty years, he did not bother to build one hospital where would be happy to be treated in his beautiful country! Did not even build any for his dear young compatriots, for whom he cares so much… What about that ring road he is personally supervising in “North West Region”? He may finally complete, rather start it in his eighth term?

But is Mr Biya the only one to blame? No. He is not even able to appear in public to declare his candidacy and did not manage that while “he campaigned” in the last one in 2018! So who is to blame? Le gourvenants, as they like to call themselves. Also their clients in the “presidential opposition” and the other incompetent clients who got themselves tethered to the trough while they pretended to be the opposition. As they are proposing to continue the same failed system, somehow expecting that they will give their supporters “a turn” at the trough, it stands to reason that they are planning to send their own cronies for health abroad and let their own collect the bribes and intimidate. La République du Cameroun will not fare any better under their “turn”…

Ambazonia is not coming back. Ambazonians should prepare to return home to our own country when La République du Cameroun has to leave. We should be prepared to unlearn any idea of the incompetent kleptocracy as our country will need our honest and full effort to grow.

If citizens of La République du Cameroun need to read through Mr Biya’s confessions, the citizens of Ambazonia need to think beyond it. They do not concern us and we need to be wary of any so-called elites repeating them to us and asking us to give Mr Biya a chance for peace. He is the one responsible for those killings and village burnings and those displacements. But worst of all, or best of all we now know that we are not part of his country and we do not have to take any notice. They will leave soon enough and we need to concentrate on charting our way and setting up the institutions of our country without fear or favour but solely for our own social and economic benefits.

Mr. Biya’s Regime: A Decline into Disorder

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In fewer than six months La République du Cameroun will have to hold “elections”. Things are falling apart as the centre can no longer hold.

It will be a chaotic event as Mr Biya is being “begged” to stand again as the “saviour”. That is not a surprise as there are no other contenders even within “his” RDPC ruling party. So how has it come to this, that at 92 and with failing health he is still being seriously even considered as a possible candidate?

Mr Biya has spent decades setting up and maintaining a tribalistic system where incompetence seems to be a requirement. Hence, the all the functionaries and “elites” of his party go out of their way to show how incompetent they are. They all state that they support the “natural” candidacy of Mr Biya, who is not well enough, and has not been well enough to run a bath. Mr Biya can be credited with insulating himself so well that non of the executive or rank and file of his RDPC dare point out the ever decreasing circle in which he finds himself. One brave member of the RDPC has pointed this out and remains at liberty, contrary to past form, where he would have been languishing in jail as soon as he dared…

From violating La République du Cameroun’s “laws” he has left himself outside the “statutes” of his own party which require him to have been “endorsed” in a congress. Of course that would have been a formality – so efficient is his insulation. The fact remains he is not healthy enough even to hold a congress in front of his captive audience! So how will he “run” La République du Cameroun when/if he wins the next “elections”? His “ministers” between filling their pockets and taking trips overseas for health care or to investigate “how embassies are using bilingualism” all insisting La République du Cameroun needs him to stand as the [violent and abusive] “father” of the nation.

While La République du Cameroun sleep walks towards chaos at the end of the year, their militias are still in Ambazonia committing with their usual impunity. For the last eight years they have gone from gleefully announcing the “neutralization of youths suspected of being separatist”, shooting toddlers on their way to kindergarten, murdering whole villages of pregnant women and children to, now maintaining a relative blackout on their continuing crimes.

There is slightly less intensity thanks to Ambazonian Restoration Forces’ self-defense efforts, which have come on leaps and bounds with experience.

As expected, other cracks are showing in Mr Biya’s regime and it is clearer and clearer that his time has passed. Mr Kamto returned from his rally in France [ yes France! why not?] and was only briefly obstructed before being allowed to go. This is contrary to previous practice when the regime broke limbs to dissuade. Mr Kamto even promised to “visit” the “Anglophone Regions” if elected president, as his first act to solve “the Anglophone Crisis”. Some might ask if the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle was so that we could benefit from a visit. The point is this would have been enough grounds to land Mr Kamto back in jail in the not-too-distant past, for “apologies for terrorism” or preaching “subversion”.

Earlier last week other oddities arose: Mr Bello Bouba Maigari, who has been a minister apparently since anyone can remember, and certainly since before the advent of Mr Biya, suddenly realized that the Biya regime has failed the people and is proposing to save La République du Cameroun – by running for the presidency himself. Better late than never! Thankfully he has not threatened to visit Ambazonia on being elected. Probably because he might be quite realistic about his chances.

Before Bello Bouba Maigari, Mr Issa Tchiroma did the unthinkable and said that he was leaving the coalition with thr RDPC “who had failed and harmed citizens in the forty-three years of Mr Biya”. To emphasize the point, he told his audience not to trust him, but instead consider him an enemy, if ever he came back to encourage them to vote for Mr Biya. It was akin to a famous Olympian saying “if you see me trying to row again, shoot me”. Just for the record, that Olympian came back, if memory does not fail, and won another medal. Thankfully everyone knew him enough not to take his word.

Should anyone take the word of Mr. Tchiroma. Afterall, he was the Communication Minister when La République du Cameroun propagandists thought it appropriate to make those “neutralization” announcements, making some of the “anti-anglophone” statements himself. Now, better late than never, he has even gone to the extent if stating that “anglophones”, as he mistakenly refers to Ambazonians, should have a voice to decide, including in a referendum! He even went out on a limb to rubbish the French proxy colonial “form of government”, namely a centralized dictatorship, of having failed and whose time had passed.

Chaos in coming to La République du Cameroun. Mr Tchiroma is still walking free! Mr Biya is not up to it!

Ambazonia News will verify and repost the Ambazonia Consultative Commission’s Crisis Plan in the coming days.

Justice Denied: The Flaws in AKA’s Military Trial

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The following is a a verbatim quote from the Lead Counsel to Abdul Karim Ali, who [AKA] was recently sentence to life by a military tribunal in La République du Cameroun, in absentia. Barrister Fru outlines some of the procedural short-comings:

The case against Abdul Karim Ali – AKA, like the thousand others against the APOCs, is procedurally and substantively flawed.

Procedurally AKA was abducted and kidnapped. He was not arrested pursuant to the procedures of the Criminal Procedure Code in cameroun. There was no arrest warrant or probable cause for his arrest. He was never caught flagrant delicto. He was held under inhumane conditions, in communicado, for several days – devoid of counsel and family.

AKA was charged under a terrorism law of 2014 that had been chastised by international jurists, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as overbroad and a dragnet against fundamental freedoms and liberties.

AKA was charged with secession with no proof of any document proving:
1) that there is a union treaty/agreement/contract or document between the Trust Territory of British Southern Caneroons and La République du Cameroun; and
2) that AKA signed or was an accomplice in signing any document abrogating or violating the supposed Union Treaty or Agreement.

If anything AKA is being persecuted for his thoughts, political opinions, nationality and membership in a particular social group of citizens of the Former British Trust Territory of Southern Cameroons advocating for the sacrosanct right of self determination. Proof of this is ocular in the confrontations that arose during AKA’s numerous interrogations, almost exclusively without Counsel, in which AKA’s conversations with accredited Diplomats and Human Rights Advocates were targets – if these conversations were criminal as insinuated, how come these named Diplomats were not subpoenaed for direct testimony and open to cross examination, at AKA’s in absentia trial?

AKA was tried and condemned in absentia, as a civilian, in a military tribunal against all international instruments forbidding the trial of regular civilians in military tribunals.

AKA, in a letter to the President of the Military Tribunal, in Yaoundé, dated May 24, 2024, refused to surrender himself to the military tribunal, as a subset of the jurisdiction of La République du Cameroun, over his Southern Caneroons nationality and citizenship. His legal thrust argument is that since there is no Union Treaty or Agreement between La République du Cameroun and Southern Caneroons and since the physical boundaries of La République du Cameroun were Frozen at midnight on December 31, 1959, pursuant to the Addis Declaration of 1964 establishing the boundaries of African States, La République du Cameroun’s presence in Southern Caneroons is annexationist and illegal.

Pursuant even to the nationality laws of La République du Cameroun, once AKA raised the issue of his nationality, the military tribunal was supposed, even by its own motion, to decline jurisdiction, and refer the matter to the locality of AKA’s claimed birth place. This was was not done.

This is a miscarriage and travesty of justice. As his Counsel, we must decry it in the loudest terms.

We have appealed the decision and it is our hope that AKA’s legal foundations will set the grounds not only to redress this manifest injustice but open the door to the necessary political actions that need to occur for a just and sustainable resolution to the war that is at the basis of AKA’s prosecution and persecution.

Joseph Awah Fru, Esquire
Lead Counsel for AKA and APOC.

Understanding the Ambazonian Independence Pact of 2025

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The Leaders Summit

It is no longer news that Ambazonian Leaders have met and signed the Indepdence Pact of Easter 2025.

In this post, Ambazonia News attempts to fill in the gaps and answer some questions.

As usual, we welcome more insights from more informed sources.

Origins

The Consultative Commission is the old Coordination Team which come to life immediately in the mele of initiatives for conferences post the [predictable] collapse of the Canadian Pre-Talks. The collapse was when La République du Cameroun publicly berated Global Affairs Canada, in effect calling, its boss and Canada’s foreign Minister equivalent … names. La République du Cameroun’s actions were entirely predictable because they have no negotiating position, even if they had “anyone at home” and, secondly, because one of their strategies is to out-wait the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle. The have done this through many schemes designed mainly to time-waste, playing for time in the hope that the momentum of the Ambazonian Liberation would diminish. That is why their response to Melanie Joly, for she was the GAC boss who first disclosed holding of the Pre-talks was utterly predictable.

Before that they had ridiculed the Swiss Process, of infamous memory, similarly, including through Justice Minister Momo’s ludicrous attempt to paint the diplomatic bungling as the clever work of Mr Biya to thwart the international community’s pressure to resolve the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle. That particular bungle, if anything, served to show that the international community was not only interested, contrary to popular perception, but involved in attempts to solve it. It is for another post to address the appropriateness and suitability of the involvement.

Other delaying tactics include the GDN, and its baby, Special Status. GDN was neither a dialogue nor great, being more of a monologue of hand-picked RDPC stooges who, just to be certain, were not allowed to use the word “federation”, which in turn, by then, was no longer a popular concept among Ambazonian Circles!

Maybe the last overt delaying tactic was the infamous reconstruction plan which turned out to be, like most La République du Cameroun projects, another embezzlement machine.

The Coordination Team, therefore was the Ambazonian response designed to consult Ambazonians, establish their preferences and aspirations in order to inform how the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle should be steered thereafter.

The report of the consultation is published and available to download from this link.

The Pact

It is the outcome of the consultations that our Coordination Team carried out with our people, after several abortive attempts to move towards a negotiated settlement, which have resoundingly come out in favour of external self-determination – Independence.
The Agreement shows the maturity in the Liberation Struggle after reflecting on many natural learning points and the appeals from the people
It is a pact to collaborate to act in a more coherent and cohesive manner to expedite Ambazonian Independence and Freedom. By collaborating, Ambazonian Leaders will demonstrate to the citizens, La République du Cameroun and the international community that they are committed and intent on staying the course and taking the Liberation Struggle over the victory line. The necessary impulses will be applied to nudge LRC towards the realization that Ambazonian minds are made up, resolve solid and their faith strong and driving them to Freedom.

How it came about

After eight years of improvising the best they could in a struggle for which they were not prepared, which they couldn’t even claim to have been ill-prepared for, it was, still is, natural that they would stumble. They now understand that they have to get up each time they stumble and respond to the cries of our people to stand up collectively to the oppression and end the [illegal] occupation. They must hold their nerve and be mindful that La République du Cameroun’s ways of dealing with the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle include propaganda, some of which tries the deception that they are failing. Instead experience teaches us that Ambazonia is winning as even the La République du Cameroun’s worst excesses of terror and intimidation have come and done: village burnings, massacres, Moja…, “elites” have all proved failures and instead served to demonstrate how incompatible La Republique du Cameroun is to Ambazonia.

While [then] Southern Cameroons had a multitude of democratically elected Prime Minsters and peaceful transitions in less that ten years, La Republque du Cameroun is stuck on two President’s , non of whom have ever been democratically elected, for over six decades!

While Southern Cameroons ran an efficient public service providing utilities and maintaining infrastructure for social progress, La Republique du Cameroons, after six decades continues to regress and shows no embarrassment, rather pride, in being so backwards that they have to evacuate their ailing “leadership” overseas for simple health care.

Why it came about.

It is necessary for our people to access the same opportunities that all other people do. We need to end the skewed and corrupt system which has reduced our people to abject poverty as second class citizens in a chronically corrupt and incompetent regime where they literally have zero opportunities for social growth.

Our Ambazonian children are very talented and we owe it to them and humanity to harness those skills and talent for humanity’s collective future on an equal footing.

Ambazonia must emerge from the dark shadow of La République du Cameroun and realise her destiny of a bright and prosperous future in the community of nations.

We will work diligently and with conviction, knowing that we are linking arms to regain and possess our country. We will keep improving our ways and getting straight back up every time if we stumble. We are maturing into a nation relying on the resilience which has seen us to this stage even in the face of a clear perceived imbalance of power

Ambazonian Liberation is a righteous course. The Most High God is the Watchman of our Nation

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Ambazonian Leaders First Joint Briefing since the Easter Pact

The Heat Factor: Compelling La République du Cameroun to Negotiate

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For a time now the chorus of “the suffering of our people” has accompanied schemes and processes to get La République du Cameroun to the negotiating table “to stop the suffering of our people”.

The idea of getting La République du Cameroun to the table has been in the air since the Swiss Process and was present in the Canada Pre-talks which followed.

The positive of these micro overtures is that La République du Cameroun can be assumed to have recognised the need for a negotiation, though it has to be underlined that their idea of negotiation will not be the same as the Ambazonians’.

The ways of getting La République du Cameroun to the table start with the obvious proven one -namely “unbearable heat on the ground”. This proven as it was responsible for “enticing” La République du Cameroun to venture onto the Swiss and then The Canada Pre-talks. Even then, it has to be factored in that La République du Cameroun could use such encounters to play for time and wait for Ambazonian coalitions to fracture as Ambazonian still sadly has many gullible “leaders”.

The gullible leaders, though talking independence and probably meaning it display the naivety to have “bringing La République du Cameroun to the table” as an end it itself. They do not consider what will keep La République du Cameroun on the table and compel them to yield to the idea of Ambazonian Independence. La République du Cameroun This was PRAP’s ingenuity. To be fair to PRAP, they then figured that such a low bar was far removed from any idea of immediate independence so they honestly postulated the idea of stages, including a referendum in the future to determine that. While this might very well attract La République du Cameroun, it would empower anglophone unionists and give La République du Cameroun the leeway to buy self-interests and pervert any future referendum, assuming the process got there. The immediate danger is, in reality have to complete the “lure” by playing “dead”… and playing dead could engender actual death of the Liberation Struggle. It would tell the day-to-day victims that the leaders are trading in their condition and willing to callously risk their lives and livelihoods on trusting a La République du Cameroun which has definitively proved their untrustworthiness.

On the Ambazonian spectrum there is a more ludicrous group even than PRAP. They are the independentists who also use the “lure La République du Cameroun to the negotiating table” mantra but do not either think about the aftermath or talk about it. Worse, they too wish to rely on diplomatic overtures with only a very flimsy tenuous reliance on “heat on the ground”. They would be less successful than PRAP in luring La République du Cameroun as they would, being independentists, have to use the words “Ambazonia” and “Independence” – the ultimate repellent to La République du Cameroun! Hopefully times helps them to realise -unless they do already realise but have undisclosed intentions.

The simple clear and surest way is the “heat on the ground” which has the effect of communicating to all key stakeholders. If properly targetted and applied along the “Daring Move” parameters, heat will quickly compel not only La République du Cameroun but any of their backers with interests on Ambazonian soil.

They would also enthuse the Ambazonian citizens who have to live the daily oppression of La République du Cameroun’s occupation forces and show them that the leadership gets it and is on the right page to take the Liberation Struggle over the victory line.

Whichever method is used to bring La République du Cameroun to the table, it is crucial to have it figured out how to keep them there and get the desired result from the negotiation. Knowing that La République du Cameroun will employ the simple time-wasting method and wait for Ambazonians to tire, it is critical to ensure that “heat” persists and that the practical independence reigns on the ground.

Complimentary commitment demands that diaspora make their own part of the commitment the only way they can, which is to contribute material and time to support and communicate commitment to the civilians on the ground. On the ground, the civilians and the ARF+ have to have a mutuality which makes them one. The ARF+ will actually go out to bat in self-defence but the civilians need to implement Ambazonian independence by by-passing La République du Cameroun officialdom at every opportunity, especially when it comes to the education system. Ambazonia News is consulting to bring more practical suggestions for by-passing the La République du Cameroun-controlled system still choking the social progress of Ambazonian children with their corrupt assimilation system.

The Ambazonian Liberation Struggle is fateful and watched over by the Watchman of our nation. On their side La République du Cameroun is doing everything to antagonise Ambazonians and convince them, as if they still needed convincing, that the two countries are incompatible. On the Ambazonian side the PRAPs of this world, whatever iteration, are thwarted by, first the “lack of anyone at home in La République du Cameroun”, and the sheer illogic of their schemes whether to Ambazonian eyes or to La République du Cameroun’s.